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At 20:18 01/04/2003 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>Has anyone looked closely at this E4X ECMAScript stuff?
>
>Robin Cover has a press release:
>http://xml.coverpages.org/ECMAScript-XML.html
>
>There's a blog with some info:
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2997
>
>That blog points to this article:
>http://dev2dev.bea.com/articles/JSchneider_XML.jsp
>
>And I'm finding myself left pretty cold about this generally. Maybe
>there's something more to it, but this looks pretty much like XPath Lite
>with ECMAScript object syntax. Maybe that's what people want. I can see
>an 80/20 there, though it strikes me funny that they used, well,
>JavaScript, a language I've been running away from for years.
>
>No, I don't think this one's an April Fool.
Looking at the number of people who move from html writing onto ecmascript
as a first language,
it sticks pretty pervasively Simon.
Perhaps javascript is the language of the web in the future...
Just that it needed an xpath enhancement?
Yuk :-)
regards DaveP
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